http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/871 <p> Today there have been 53,932 attempts to login to the <a class="ext-link" href="http://www.transitiontowntotnes.org/"><span class="icon">​</span>TTT web site</a> on <a class="wiki" href="http://localhost:8080/trac/wiki/ParrotServer">ParrotServer</a> all from the same IP address: </p> <pre class="wiki">grep POST /home/ttt/logs/access.log | grep wp-login.php | grep 217.174.240.254 | wc -l 53932 </pre><p> I noticed this due the higher than usual load it was generating. </p> <p> Would it be OK to spend an hour or two installing the <a class="ext-link" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fail2ban/"><span class="icon">​</span>WP fail2ban</a> plugin on all the sites on the server? </p> <p> Some more background on this issue: </p> <ul><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://docs.webarch.net/wiki/WordPress#Brute_Force_Attacks"><span class="icon">​</span>https://docs.webarch.net/wiki/WordPress#Brute_Force_Attacks</a> </li></ul> en-us /trac/chrome/site/TransitionNetwork-Logo-Web-Small.jpg http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/871 Trac 0.12.5 chris Mon, 21 Sep 2015 13:41:26 GMT http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/871#comment:1 http://localhost:8080/trac/ticket/871#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>hours</strong> changed from <em>0.0</em> to <em>0.25</em> </li> <li><strong>totalhours</strong> changed from <em>0.0</em> to <em>0.25</em> </li> </ul> Ticket